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Re: [Nmh-workers] manpage table help

2013-02-20 20:35:41

On 2013-02-20, at 6:15 PM, Jon Steinhart wrote:

You can just to .ta 1i 2i 3i for tabs at 1, 2, and 3
inches and just eyeball things until it looks right to you.

That breaks horribly between nroff and troff output.  Or even within troffs, 
since two different systems might use different fonts and point sizes in their 
tmac.man implementations.

\w'xxx' is the correct way to do this.


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